The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-10-26
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Forbidden Honey" the Theme OF
en- Interesting Discourse.
ri,a varlous Aiiuring pitfalls which May
be Included In the Category ana the
the Moral Ruin They Lead To-
Safety Only in Obedience

For the subject of a recent sermon at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev Z. Dew Ut
Talmage took "Forb.dden Honey" the
text being:
ibid hut taste a little honey With the end OF
she rod that was in my hand and. To- must
del. samuel xiv, -
Or. Talmage said: The honey bee IS q
most ingenious architect, a Christopher
Wren among insects, geometer drawing
hexagons and pentagons, g. freebooter
robbing the fields Of pollen and aroma,
wonarous creature OF God whose
biography, " ritten By Huber and Swami
meridian, Is on enchantment for any lover
Of nature. Virgil celebrated the bee IN
his fable Of Aristmns, and Moses, ana
Samuel, and David, and solomon, ana
Jeremiah. and Ezekiel and 81 John USED
the delicacies of bee manufacture as
Bible symbol. A miracle Of formation IS
the bee; five eyes, two tongues, the outer
having a sheath OF protection hairs on al
sides of It's tiny body to brush up the
particleg of flowers, its flight 50 straight
that all the world knows Of the bee line.
The honey. comb is a palace such as no
one Int God could plan, and the honey bee
construct: its cells sometimes
dornitory. and sometimes store
house. and sometimes a cemetery. These
winged toilers first make eight strips OF
wax, and by their antennm, which are 70
them hammer, aud chsel and square, and
plumb-line. fashion them for use. Two
and two. these workers shape the wall II
on accident happen they put up but
tresses or extra beams to remedy the dam
nce. When about the year l1iG an insect,
before unknov h, in the night time attack
cd the bee hivet all over Europe, and the
men who owned them were in vain trying
to plan some thing TO keep out the In
vader that was the terror OF the bee-hives
OF the continent il was found that every
where the bees had arranged for their
own protection. and built before their
honovcombs an especial wall Of wax with
port-hoIe through which the baes might
20 to and fro hat not large enough to adj
NIT the winged combatant, called the
sphinx atropos.
Do YOU know that the swarming OF the
bees is divinely directeds The mother bee
starts for new home, and because OF TINS
the other bees of the hive get into some
excitement, which raises the heat OF the
hiysSenla. four degrees. land they must
die unless tfep-4eaye their heated apart
ments, and they fofiow-the mother bee
and alight on the branch OF tree,
and cling to each other and hold on until
a committee Of two or three have explored
the region aud found the hollow of tree
or rock not far off from a stream of water,
and they here set up a new colony and
plv their aromatic industries, and give
themselyf to the manufacture of the sac
charine edible BID who can tell the
chemistry of that mixture of sweetness,
part OF it the very life of the bee and part
Of it the life Of the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging In the woods OF Breth- ayen dur
iil4-sfhe time of Saul and Jonathan. Their
army wasVins pursuit of an enemy that by
Gods comnNSpd must bs exterminated.
The soldiery wS positively forbidden 70
stop to eat any TIM e until the work was
Done. II they disobs~ed they We're ac-
cursed. Coming throuSt the wooda they
found place where the bees had been
busy---a great honey mandatory. Honey
gathered in the hollow of trees until II
had overfiowed upon the ground in great
profusion Of sweetness. All the army
obeyed orders and touched it not, save
Jonathan, and he, not knowing the milf
tary order about abstinence, dipped the
end Of q stick he had in his hand
into the candied liquid, and as, yel.
low, and brown, and tempting, II glowed
on the end of the stick, he put 1t to his
mouth and ate the honey. Judgment fell
upon him, and but for special intervention
he would have been slain. In my text
Jonathan announces his awful mistake:
did but taste a little honey with the emo
OF the rod that was In my hand, and, 10, mus
die
Alas, what multitudes of people in al
ages have been damaged by forbidden
boney--by which mean temptation---de
iicions and attractive, but damaging and
destructive
Literature, fascinating but beautiful,
comes in this category. Where one good
honest healthful book is read now thers
are one hundred made up OF rhetorical
trash consumed with avidity. When tht
boy on the cars comes through with pile
of publications, look over tue titles ant
notice that nine out of ten of the books are
depicting and injurious All the way
from New York TO Chicago or New Or
leans, notice that Objectionable books
dominate. Taste for pure literature il
poisoned by this scum OF the publishing
house. Every book in which sin triumph:
over virtue, or in which a glamour il
thrown over dissipation, respect fol-
the marriage institution and lest
adherence for the paramour, IL depres
sion Of your own moral characters, The
book binding may be- attractive, and the
plot dramatic and startling, aud the style
OF writing sweet as the honey that iona
than dipped up with his rod, but you
best interests forbid 1t, your moral safety
forbids il, your God forbids it, and on'
taste Of it may lead to such bad results
that you may have TO say at the close D
the experiment, or at the close Of 4 mis-
iii'sCoved lifetime:
dIdeut taste iitilehoncy with the rod tina
was in my hand, and 10, must die.
Corrupt literature Is doing more to-day
for the disruption Of domestic life thar
any other cause. Elopements, marital in
trgues. ely correspondence, fictitious
names given at post-ofllce windows, clan
destIne meetings in parks and at ferry
gates, and in hotel parlors, and conjugal
perjuries are among the dansnabie results
When woman, Young or old. gets he
head thoroughly stuffed with the moderI
novel she is in appalling peril. But SOM
one will say: "The heroes are SO adroitly
knayish, and the persons so bewItching
ly untrue, and the turn of the stor,
% exquisite, and all the charac
tiers so enrapturing, can no
quit them" NV brother, my sister, yol
can find STYLES OF literature just as charm
ing that will elevate aud purify, aud on
noble, and Chrlstianlze while they please
The devil does not own all the honey
There is a wealth of good books coming
forth from our publishing houses tina
leave no excuse for the choice Of tina
which is debauching TO body, mind an'
sonl. Go 20 some intelligent men 0
women, and ask for a list Of books tina
will be streng thening to your mental an'
moral condition. Life is so short AM
your time for improvements so abbreviated
that you can mot afford 70 fill up VIII
husks, and cinders, and debris. In tn
interstices OF business that young man ]
reading that which win prepare him {
be a merchant prince, and that yonnl
woman Is filing her mind with an intelli
genco that will yet either make her Tia
xsttaf attraction NJ a sxf,fA mania h0fur- "a